"I"
"Want to."
"Live. On!"
And so, under the old man's step-by-step "pressure," the resolute, unyielding young man finally lost control and confessed the deepest voice within his heart!
Thinking back, Ye Chen had once wanted to turn himself into someone utterly alone!
That was because he deeply understood the meaning behind the saying, "The barefoot fear not those who wear shoes"!
Once a person had something to worry about, they would fear death. And once they feared death, they would slowly become desperate to cling to life—cowardly and weak!
Ye Chen did not want to become that sort of timid wretch, forever fretting over gain and loss!
On the contrary, he wanted to become a brave man who charged ever onward, one who could face death with composure at any moment!
Only then could Ye Chen maintain that life-or-death ferocity in every deadly battle ahead, carry through the madness carved into his bones, and trample the heads of more and more prey beneath his feet!
Thus, from the moment he lost his family and homeland, he had once resolved not to become entangled too deeply with any outsiders!
However.
Looking back now, Ye Chen had ultimately been too young, too naive, too certain that things would turn out as he imagined!
How could it be so easy, living in this world, to truly become utterly alone!
Especially for someone like him, who held lofty ideals and unshakable convictions in his heart!
Strength! Resolve! Calmness! Wisdom! Humility!
Hatred for evil!
Cherishing the good and the weak!
Ever onward!
Ye Chen could never conceal the radiance of his true nature!
And so, step by step, as he had come this far, groups of people had inevitably gathered around him, one after another!
Ye Chen had once been so afraid that a